Enzymatic Cascades for Tailored 13C6 and 15N Enriched Human Milk Oligosaccharides

  • Autor:

    Fischöder, T. / Cajic, S. / Grote, V. /  Heinzler, R. / Reichl , U. / Franzreb, M. / Rapp, E. / Elling, L. (2019)

  • Quelle:

    Molecules 2019, 24, 19, 3482, https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24193482

  • Datum: September 2019

Abstract

Several health benefits, associated with human milk oligosaccharides (HMOS), have been revealed in the last decades. Further progress, however, requires not only the establishment of a simple "routine" method for absolute quantification of complex HMOS mixtures but also the development of novel synthesis strategies to improve access to tailored HMOS. Here, we introduce a combination of salvage-like nucleotide sugar-producing enzyme cascades with Leloir-glycosyltransferases in a sequential pattern for the convenient tailoring of stable isotope-labeled HMOS. We demonstrate the assembly of [13C6]galactose into lacto-N- and lacto-N-neo-type HMOS structures up to octaoses. Further, we present the enzymatic production of UDP-[15N]GlcNAc and its application for the enzymatic synthesis of [13C6/15N]lacto-N-neo-tetraose for the first time. An exemplary application was selected—analysis of tetraose in complex biological mixtures—to show the potential of tailored stable isotope reference standards for the mass spectrometry-based quantification, using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) as a fast and straightforward method for absolute quantification of HMOS. Together with the newly available well-defined tailored isotopic HMOS, this can make a crucial contribution to prospective research aiming for a more profound understanding of HMOS structure-function relations.

 

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